9.00 THE LISTENING ROOMPresented by Andrew McLennanSURREALISMAmerican HeavyA performance by Gregory WhiteheadRich and famous. A mole burrowing into the language of celebrity culture. The man for all seasons who is - in that sense - the man for no/body.Buried AliveBy Natalie Kestecher"Readers of Edgar Allan Poe's tales may comfort themselves with the notion that Poe must have exaggerated: surely people of the 1800s could not have been at risk of being buried live? But such stories filled medical journals as well as popular fiction, and fear in the populace was high".(Jan Bondeson, Buried Alive, 2001).Natalie Kestecher takes a look at the history of the fear of being buried alive, precautions taken against it happening, and some of the stories and anecdotes about the subject that still circulate.With textual exerts from Gottfried Keller's song cycle Lebendig Begraben (Buried Alive)and music from Morton Feldman's ForSamuel Beckett.Sound engineer: Russell StapletonProducer: Natalie KestecherEmail: listeningroom@your.abc.net.au10.00FeldmanFor Samuel Beckett: Excerpt - Klangforum Wien / Sylvain CambrelingKAIROS 0012012KAI 6'